How have the women’s and LGBT movements reconstituted the meanings—both as a legal and cultural matter—of gender, sexual orientation, and family? What role have conservative countermobilizations played? How do movements shape the conditions under which their adversaries can argue? Is this movement-countermovement dynamic the ordinary condition of politics? Or is “backlash” a special, pathological feature that can and must be avoided? Is this process triggered by any form of legislative rights recognition, or primarily by judicial recognition of rights?